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Most inequality metrics treat geography like a flat map. They fold neighborhoods into census tracts, then feed the numbers into a single index. The re...
Spatial inequality metrics promise clarity—a number that tells you how unevenly something is spread across a map. But anyone who's used them in real p...
You've got a dataset—maybe census tracts, maybe grid cells—and you want to measure how unevenly something is distributed. Income. Tree canopy. Hospita...
Picture this: a city with perfect average income but a five-year life-expectancy gap between two neighborhoods a mile apart. That's spatial inequality...
So you’ve got a map of income or health outcomes, and you need to measure how unevenly they’re spread. Maybe you’re a city planner deciding where to b...
Maps are persuasive. A single choropleth can make poverty look concentrated or dispersed, depending on how you draw its boundaries. Spatial inequality...
Here is the moment nobody warns you about: you have built a beautiful dashboard. GDP per capita is climbing. Unemployment is falling. Everything green...
Every spatial equity analysis starts with a benchmark—a yardstick that says what fair looks like. Pick the wrong one, and your policy recommendations ...
You run the numbers. Gini drops 0.02. Theil index improves. Your map shades greener in the receiving region. But that green hides red. Someone left a ...
A city council once asked me to review their 'inclusive prosperity index.' It had seventeen variables, a proprietary weighting scheme, and a color-cod...
Sao Paulo's Gini coefficient dropped 12% between 2000 and 2010. Officials celebrated. But ask anyone in the favelas on the periphery: their lives hadn...
The openion window I saw a heatmap of eviction filings at the parcel level, I felt smart. Then I tried to use it to set a rent stabilization zone. The...
Spatial inequality metric have become the go-to tools for funders, planners, and activists who want to measure who gets left behind. But here is a tru...